How To Install libIDL.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libIDL.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libIDL.x86_64 is Library for parsing IDL (Interface Definition Language)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libIDL.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libIDL.x86_64`

libIDL is a library for parsing IDL (Interface Definition Language). It can be used for both COM-style and CORBA-style IDL.

We can use yum to install libIDL.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libIDL.x86_64.

Install libIDL.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libIDL.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libIDL.x86_64

How To Uninstall libIDL.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libIDL.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libIDL.x86_64

libIDL.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libIDL-2.so.0
/usr/lib64/libIDL-2.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.14
/usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.14/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.14/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.14/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.14/MAINTAINERS
/usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.14/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.14/README

References

libIDL.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libIDL.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.